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Excerpt from Valedictory Address to the Graduating Class of the School of Medicine of the University of Maryland: Delivered at the Holliday Street Theatre, Baltimore, March 3d, 1869
Your Faculty has seen fit, on the present occa sion, as the distinguished Provost has informed you, to depart from the long-established custom which would have given you the pleasure of receiving, from the lips of one of its own members, the cordial welcome and God-speed which I am commissioned to offer you. Had I not been educated in the doctrine of implicit faith and passive obedience, where my medical advisers are concerned, I might have ven tured to doubt whether it was altogether fair, in the last hour Of your immediate connexion with the University, to deprive you of the benefit of those wise counsels, which none could give you half so well as the experienced, able and accomplished men, in whose name I have the honor to address you. Cer tain it is, I should have shrunk, with unaffected self-distrust, from the attempt to represent them, had' they not relieved me from the duty to do more than speak for them a few kind, parting words.
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